Nova Chat
Nova Chat is the community-paid message allowance that comes with Community PRO. In a PRO server/group, members' conversations with Nova are paid for by the community's own pooled budget — so a member chatting with Nova there doesn't spend their personal free daily limit.
Without it, every member talks to Nova on their own personal allowance (free users: 10 requests/day, everywhere combined). With Nova Chat, your community absorbs that cost: a newcomer with zero history can ask Nova twenty questions in your server on day one, and still have their full personal limit left for DMs and other communities.
Nova Chat is automatic — there's nothing to enable and nothing members need to do. The moment a community is on Community PRO, messages to Nova in that server/group draw from the pool. See Nova Premium for Communities.
The Pool
Community pool, per day
150 messages
Community pool, per month
2,500 messages
Fair share, per member per day
50 messages
The fair-share cap is what keeps the pool honest: one hyperactive member can't drain the whole day's budget before anyone else wakes up. After a member's 50th pooled message of the day, they simply continue on their own personal allowance.
The pool only ever adds headroom — it never takes any away. When a cap is reached (fair-share, daily, or monthly), members fall back to exactly the personal limits they'd have without it: free users keep their 10/day, and a member with personal PRO keeps their 100/day on top of whatever the pool already covered. Caps reset automatically — daily at midnight UTC, monthly on the 1st.
What Members See
Nothing, usually — that's the point. Nova just answers, and nobody's personal counter moves.
The only time Nova Chat becomes visible is when a budget runs out mid-day and the member's personal limit is also spent. Then, instead of the generic limit notice, Nova explains what actually happened:
🚫 Nova Chat has used up this community's daily message budget (150/day). It resets automatically — no action needed. Personal daily limits apply until it resets.
Checking the Pool
Any admin can see live pool usage in the plan status — in your server/group, ask:
"@Nova what plan are we on?" · "@Nova show our plan status"
The status card includes the Nova Chat line:
The Fine Print
Does it apply in DMs?
No — the pool covers messages inside the PRO server/group. DMs always use personal limits.
Do admins draw from the pool?
Bot admins bypass rate limits entirely and never touch the pool.
Do cooldowns still apply?
Yes — the short per-user cooldown and the per-server hourly limit still protect against bursts; the pool only replaces the personal daily limit.
What about free communities?
Nothing changes — members use their personal limits exactly as before.
Both platforms?
Yes — a plan covering a Discord server and a Telegram group shares one pool across both.
Nova Chat pairs naturally with Nova Soul (your community's custom persona) — together they make Nova feel like your community's own bot: it speaks with your identity, on your budget.